The University of the Philippines will reach its 100 years next year, 2008. Being the first university to see the formation of fraternities that boast of highly professional brilliant men in our country's recent history, UP is now in a deep and lingering crisis.

The trail of a total of 12 deaths of its students in frat-related violence plus all other unrecorded victims in the myriad forms of these evil acts haunt this breeding ground of intelligent men and women and all the families affected despite several attempts of the UP Administration to remedy this problem. And as the seriousness of this issue escalates in UP alone all these years, a parallel and similar situation, but in a much worse magnitude, silently happens in other universities and even high schools where the spread of these Greek and Roman inspired brotherhoods sow terror and leave trails of more deaths on its warpath.

Hong Kong based Filipino artists Joel Ferraris and Arnel Agawin together with their local artist team-mates in the Hong Kong Mural Society have just finished their latest project- A large mural measuring 7 meters high by 128 meters long at Cheung Wang Estate in Tsing Yi Island. Funded by the Hong Kong Housing Authority to mark their 50th anniversary of public housing management, their history and vision of future developments was graphically depicted on the mural.

The work started in August of this year wherein students, public housing tenants, related government department staff and other members of the public participated in the painting process under the supervision and programme of the Hong Kong Mural Society. On the 11th December 2004, a big inauguration will take place on the site of what turned out to be the longest outdoor mural in Hong Kong to date.